eastern time, the committee meets to vote on the nomination of chuck hagel to be the next secretary of defense. live coverage also on her companion network, c-span3. >> i think we hold him up as this amazing feat. we look at what happened afterwards and we see how incredibly difficult it was an decisive in some ways, but also that you had this progress after that it was seen as a great victory, but it's also seen as what we did not accomplish yet. so when i was looking at the segregation disaggregation and how it was finally implemented 20 years later, the way these programs are set up still maintains this privilege. >> sarah garland chronicles the lawsuit brought up to challenge school disintegration. in her book, divided we fail. part of presidents' day weekend on c-span2. >> monday, senate minority leader mitch mcconnell spoke about what he wants to hear about health care in the presidency of the union address. this is five minutes. >> over the past few weeks, i have come to the floor to urge the president and democrats to act on the huge fiscal challenge facing our nation. starting